Le Gai savoir
Le Gai savoir (1969) finds Jean-Luc Godard in a period of transition. At the time Godard was becoming progressively more radically Marxist while, as an artist, he was attempting to… Read more »
Tag: Jean-Luc Godard
Je vous salue, Marie
Jean-Luc Godard’s Je vous salue, Marie (1985) adapts that brief portion of The Gospel According To St. Matthew dealing with the Immaculate Conception. Godard omits the contents of the second… Read more »
Scenario Du Film Passion
In the following piece I make several references to Fabrice Ziolkowski’s article The Passion According To Jean-Luc, which appears on pages 48-49 of On Film issue #12. It may be helpful… Read more »
Ishaghpour & Godard
“Looking at Histoire(s) du cinéma, the first chapter especially, I got the impression there had been three major events in the twentieth century: the Russian revolution, Nazism, and cinema, particularly… Read more »
Vivre sa Vie
Jean-Luc Godard’s fourth film, Vivre Sa Vie (1962), is a character study manifested in a twelve part tableaux. Anna Karina (Godard’s then wife and muse) plays the lead, Nana, a… Read more »
Wittgenstein, Bazin, & Godard
Reality: The world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them: “he refuses to face reality”. – Webster’s English… Read more »
